Posted 9 years ago
Bottles17a…
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Those are some bottles I found three clorox different sizes and the one is a jug that says half gallon on it and it has a tar like sticky type substance in it. If yoy know anything about these bottles please let me know and I go to this place in the woods everyday that has hunderades of bottles and I will post pictures everyday.
If you see, say, a 59 or 61 on the bottom, it's likely the year it was made.
Something like 9. <(I)> 52 is common on these kinds of bottles.
9. is the glass-plant of Owen-Illinois (I think it ranged from 1 to 27, depending on location,) and the two-digit number is the year. <(I)> or (I) was usually their symbol. So too was Duraglass in cursive.
A 1-digit number in place of year is read as such:
No dot (7) is 1930s, so the 7 would be 1937.
A dot (6.) is 1940s, so the 6. is 1946.
But the plastic caps tell me they're likely around 1960.
Of course, there were many glass-makers. Several major ones used date-codes.
It sounds like you found a household dump from around 1960.
And I'll posy some pics of the other stuff I found so far
I have some pictures of the place if you want to see them
I assume they're either all scattered or in mounds. If you find mounds of dirt, dig into them. If glass pops out in the first foot, keep digging. The oldest stuff is usually at the bottom.
There scattered all over but they are stacked on top of each other to. It's right below an old barn and it's on a hill and like 10 yards away Is an old foundation for something I can't see alot of the stuff though because it's all covered in leaves and there's an old house foundation about 40 yards away from it
If ever you get a metal detector, take it around the foundations and older trees.
Bring a rake.
Thanks and I'll try that I'm probably getting one this weekend and I'll post my finds after I'm done and I have better pics of those bottles and jw where do you live SpirtBear
I have a lot of water- and land-based bottle-hunting experience, so most of my tips should prove helpful. Also always keep an eye out, in the household dump mounds, for small items that are round. A silver half dollar may be totally black or brown like the earth 60 years after it fell in. I find coins all over.
(This silver quarter, for example, I dug in a pile of glass and it hardly looks silver: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RGgOTkSMV-Y/VmyFQO9OuRI/AAAAAAAAds4/X-JoHU8cejo/w730-h548-no/House%2BDemo%2B032.JPG But it cleaned up very well.)
I'm in West Michigan. :)
Nice find and thanks for taking time to help me figure this stuff out
Soda bottles that are embossed (raised lettering) or have a ''painted'' label (it's actually baked on) are good to bring back.
Ok thanks I have a couple of each
Bottles17, i recently found an intact medium size Clorox bottle in a mid-century dump, too. I looked it up, and it turns out they are neither rare nor worth a lot
http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/common/bleach%20bottles.html
I still think they are special, yours are actually very cool, and the bottles in your other post are in much better condition than those i found =)
If you think on them, you can often have an idea if it will be rare or not.
Clorox. Most popular bleach brand. Everyone was using bleach back in the day. Many must have survived. Ever heard of Fleecey-White Bleach? It's no longer around but was also popular. Bleach will always be popular.
Patent Medicines, like Sloan's Liniment. There must be a million. Same with Dr. Kilmer's and my recent one (I typically don't do patent meds as too many survive), Warner's.
Coca-Cola. Most of us bottle seekers have seen some. I only bring them back because I can make a few pennies off of them.
People collect what is easiest to collect, in most cases, and what they remember from when they were young-- I don't like Coca-Cola. I prefer smaller brands myself, like Sprecher's.
The ACL there, albeit not rare-seeming, is the much better find as it would be confined to a certain locality (unless it's like Orange Crush, which went everywhere). Go for embossed and ACL stuff.
Bear, thank you, as always, very insightful. I'm not picky when in comes to getting old bottles for free =) Like you said, i'll also try to make a few pennies off of them and learn along the way. Anything post 1920 is not my thing, but older bottles are harder to come by for me and pricier, of course. I'll post a couple of better ones over the weekend that i recently found, embossed and, what seems like, a local brand, for your feedback ;)
I have 2 bleach bottles inside as part of a small display along with medicines (bathroom shelf).
I posted a story and its lesson from a butterfly just now, and an hour ago something I made. Not sure if I'll be posting anything else this weekend.
For research, I don't know if you read my comments here on it, but to research your bottles here you go:
http://www.antique-bottles.net/showthread.php?686523-On-Using-Search-Engines-for-Research
How to properly use Google.
Hmm, had no idea. Will have to try it this way. Thank you, Spirit! And will read your post tomorrow :-)